Thanks so much for Andy for joining me on this podcast! He shares his entrepreneurial tendencies in jamming business ideas with friends, some of which were probably massive ideas that we've seen implemented everywhere around us know - food delivery, car pooling etc - it's crazy how many missed opportunities there were!!!  

We talk about his journey and the thought process of changing his polytechnic course just a short-year away from finishing it, lessons learned as a police NSF and how SMU changed his perspective about kids via its mandatory community service curriculum for its students.  He also shares his side-ecommerce venture with friends and lastly, the undertaking of becoming a young father and things to definitely keep in mind prior to having a child!

I had the privilege to host a great friend I met at the NUS Business School, Zhi Rong! I've had the opportunity to work with him for 2 semesters and I must say that his ability to think outside of the box is quite fascinating. We even won first prize for a class-project together! haha...good old days 

 Zhi Rong is from Johor, Malaysia, and has been traveling to Singapore almost every single day since his primary school days -  the hustle that he exhibits is something i'm extremely impressed by and i think its definitely something worth highlighting to Singaporeans, who may at times take the opportunities here foregranted (this includes me mysefl!! and this serves as a reminder)  

He just graduated this year from NUS Business School and he shares more about his experience as a performance marketer, internships in Silicon Valley and his priorities as a fresh university graduate. He also shares the interview processes he gone through in some of the top-consulting companies that most business students aspire to go to - definitely worth watching/hearing this if you're a business student!!

This is by far the longest podcast I've ever recorded, not for the sake of achieving long durations but more so learning so much from Royal, who is currently a portfolio manager at Queens Investment Group.  His expertise revolves around blockchain, trading, and cryptocurrency - if you've no idea about blockchain, I think this podcast episode serves as a wholesome introduction to what this technology can do. We talk about why people might want to invest in themselves, by themselves and reasons why they should.  Royal himself also owns a series of food stalls - RiceBowlGold, as he shares his vision & goals in what he wants to achieve while dropping business lessons along the way.  We end off by talking about books he reads as well as our general perspective of life in general :) 

A huge THANK YOU for Gao Fei in joining me on this podcast session - he is the founder and CEO of Learnseeker.   

I talk with him about his beginnings as an entrepreneur who started out selling cards Yu-Gi-Oh game cards since primary school days, his multiple business ventures during his secondary & junior college days as well as his 6 failed business attempts. He shares crazy stories on utilizing a school's email list for his business ventures, creating hundreds of Google accounts for free advertising credits on Google Adwords, as well as the humbling experience he had from learning from veteran and well-seasoned entrepreneurs. I had the privilege to meet Gao Fei when I was studying at the National University of Singapore and we met through the NUS Overseas College Programme - both of us could probably be termed as fans of NUS, as he shares how NUS played a critical role in shaping who he is as the CEO of his company.   If you ever had the slightest tendency in wanting to start your business, this is definitely a podcast worth listening too. *he shares his experience on raising money too!  

While the topic of anxiety, depression and mental well-being may still be considered as a taboo topic in Singapore, I definitely think its things that should be talked about, and I'm very grateful for Kevin for being willing to share his story of how he overcame anxiety attacks he faced, along with depression and its consequences.  We talked in-depth about the state of mental well-being and its importance, how he landed up in Singapore's top junior college - Raffles Junior College, how it was like studying there and its perceived stress that the Singapore education has on students.   He subsequently garnered his experiences into starting his own company - Rebound With Resilience, dedicated to helping people to cope with such issues, about how he is constantly trying to reframe ingrained perspectives and most Singaporean kids have - some examples include how school grades may mean everything to a primary school child, and failure is deemed as a negative event to avoid at all cost - its terrifying to see how such limiting beliefs would manifest when they grow up into adults. Lastly, we ended off talking about books that inspired us, and Kevin shares a crazy story of this navy-seal that inspired him :)

I have many architecture undergraduate friends and I can confirm my hypothesis that they really look at the world with a very different lens!! Thanks so much to Gabriel for taking the time to share his experience studying at one of Singapore's newest universities - SUTD (Singapore University of Technology & Design) as he shares more about the curriculum at SUTD, programmes that architecture students learn, what architecture is all about, his side-hustle, buildings that he loves & working in Sembcorp Architects & Engineers Pte Ltd. We also discuss on books that we've read, our mentors, creating habits and dissolving the ego. Lastly, Gabriel shares about his upbringing, where his childhood consisted of living in 4 different parts of Singapore - and what blows my mind is how he felt there is a significant difference when living in different parts of Singapore!!

A huge thanks to Danial Arun for joining me on this podcast session. He's a great friend I met in Beijing through the NUS Overseas College Programme, where undergraduates from the National University of Singapore are sent to various parts of the world to work in startups - Danial and I share about our experiences of working in Beijing!  Danial freshly graduated as a Real Estate Major from NUS this year and he shares a little bit about his work here. We talk about our time in Beijing as well as the differences between China universities and Singapore universities - Danial studied at the Peking University for a semester while I was at the TsingHua University for 2 semesters - he shares an interesting perspective of how China students won't ever give up! We also talked about random stuff such as learning videography online and how YouTube had changed our lives - or at least it definitely has for me :)

On this episode, I talk with Tony about how it was like participating in the NUS Overseas College Programme, where undergraduates from the National University of Singapore are sent to various parts of the world to intern at startups - Tony had the privilege to go to Silicon Valley to work as a data analyst at The League, a dating app primarily for singles driven in their professional careers. He also shares more about his side-hustle, Bruce, a gamified CRM for your social circles as well as books that he read - he definitely shares very insightful lessons from books such as Never Split The Difference by Chris Voss and When by Daniel H. Pink - he also answers the long-dreaded question of how to negotiate for your salary!!

Had a great podcast session with Haris, where he shares his journey on how he became a software developer via a Software Bootcamp he joined within 90 days, his experience of working in a Singaporean startup -pslove, and his story of what led to him to quit his full-time job in founding his company -Zukunf - Haris shares how taking the Enneagram of Personality test changed his mindset entirely on pursuing his startup! Definitely a podcast session worth listening to :)

Had the greatest privilege to have Peter all the way from the United States on this podcast! If there's one word I can use to describe Peter, it'll be HUSTLE.

This guy quit his well-paying job in the States and of all places, came to Singapore without a job, hustled his way through and landed himself a full-time position in a Singaporean Startup - he worked for free, mimicked the company's website and got his job in an unconventional manner relative to the norm of submitting resumes. 

Peter talks about being an expat in Singaporean, his story of landing a job at Gym Pod, as well as sharing his side-hustle, Green Guards. I had the chance to share with him in great detail what's my purpose of doing this podcast and learned a great deal about the books that have blown Peter's mind - after all, I LOVE reading books so much!

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